DAY 2
Knowledge Begins in Awe
기원전 10~4세기
ORIGINAL
רֵאשִׁית דַּעַת יִרְאַת יְהוָה
📜 THE VERSE
The first step of knowledge is awe — bowing before what is greater than oneself.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
Have I lost all awe, mistaking myself for the largest thing in the room?
📝Reflection
To read this verse only as one faith's creed is to read half of it. Its core is the awareness that something greater than oneself exists. Only those who have bowed before nature, before time, before death are finally ready to learn. It is the same humility as when Socrates said, 'I know that I know nothing.' Place yourself at the center of the universe and knowledge stops growing. Awe is not the opposite of knowledge but the first soil in which all true knowledge takes root.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Today, spend three seconds looking up at one thing older and larger than you — the sky, an old tree.
📖 Source:
Proverbs 1:7.
히브리어 원전 + 개역한글판(1961, PD) 참조, ONGO 자체 의역.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
